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History of the Guitar
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HemeolaMan
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RE: History of the Guitar (in reply to Dougie)
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Besides henry, if you examine the writing of Gaspar Sanz among others, in the 17-16th centuries, the guitar was more important in italy, france and germany. With most of the bulk of the composition done by baroque composers, very little of the flamenco world was considered. The "spanish" guitar was only spanish because it had 5 strings, as opposed to the 4 of a renaissance guitar. thus giving way to the popular misconception that the guitar is somehow more spanish than italian, french, german etc. For example, in soundboard magazine, the guitar foundation of americas periodical, there is an article on the restoration of an early baroque guitar built in prague for the hapsburg family.....sound spanish to you??? lol Other than that, we see some early early early guitars popping up in the Duchies of Burgundy in the early 16th century, though mostly belonging to menestrels. Really flamenco is just a tiny tiny blip on the radar.
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Date Oct. 7 2008 3:53:15
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Estevan
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RE: History of the Guitar (in reply to HemeolaMan)
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Besides henry, if you examine the writing of Gaspar Sanz among others, in the 17-16th centuries, the guitar was more important in italy, france and germany. With most of the bulk of the composition done by baroque composers, very little of the flamenco world was considered. The "spanish" guitar was only spanish because it had 5 strings, as opposed to the 4 of a renaissance guitar. thus giving way to the popular misconception that the guitar is somehow more spanish than italian, french, german etc. For example, in soundboard magazine, the guitar foundation of americas periodical, there is an article on the restoration of an early baroque guitar built in prague for the hapsburg family.....sound spanish to you??? lol Yes - the Hapsburgs ruled Spain from 1517 until 1700. Hem, you might be interested in the article about flamenco on Rafael Andía's site. He has some ideas about possible evolutionary connections between baroque guitar and flamenco. Yeah, I know - at first that sounds nuts, but maybe it's not so far-fetched. Impossible to prove or disprove, but maybe food for thought. The original is in French, the English version is very dodgy but generally understandable.
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